Rudy, Joe Mutual Admiration Society

I’m watching the NYS Republican’s endorsement of Rudy Giuliani at the Albany Airport on cable, my colleague Jim Odato will report on it later, and it seems like a mirror of last week’s Democratic lovefest with Hillary Clinton, although there is some not-so-subtle acknowledgement that the state’s Republican party needs some revival.

After being praised by Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, Giuliani just said Bruno was NYC’s ”biggest supporter in Albany.”

Giuliani went on to invoke the name of former Republican Chairman Bill Powers, which drew applause, and took a stab at mollifying concerns that a Clinton-Giuliani race would make the Empire State irrelevant — except as an ATM stop — since Democrats and Republicans would respectively support those candidates in a primary.

He said he and Bruno would work to move the Republican party in the “right direction and to make sure that in the next election New York is not left out.”